In Windows 8 and Windows 10, some programs and apps may only show a hidden toolbar if the mouse cursor is positioned at top of the window. In most Microsoft Windows programs, the toolbars can be adjusted, hidden, or displayed by clicking View at the top of the window, and then selecting Toolbars. In programs that do not have a View menu, look in the Settings or Properties section.
Home Dictionary T - Definitions. Maybe you have snippets of data on Post-It notes attached to your monitor or in text files on your desktop.
How about organizing the information and making it more accessible via a toolbar located in your taskbar. This is great low tech solution for quickly creating a list of things you find hard to remember, like commands, shortcuts, or phone numbers.
To create this type of list, you need to create a new toolbar, pick an empty folder, and then fill that folder with files, whose names represent your notes. Since your note is the title of the shortcut file, your choice of characters and length are limited.
Use Notepad files and save them as shortcut. LNK files; that way the file extension is never shown. You can also choose a custom icon: right-click on the file, select Properties , and click the Change Icon This tip was seen on How To Geek. They have a few more tips, including a way to add new notes automatically using a. Those of you running Windows 7, you can simply use and customize the existing Start Menu. Provide customization for toolbars consisting of two or more rows.
Only the unlabeled icons style needs customization. Simple toolbars with few commands don't need customization. Provide a good default configuration. Users shouldn't have to customize their toolbars for common scenarios. Don't depend upon users customizing their way out of a bad initial configuration. Assume that most users won't customize their toolbars. For the Customize command, display an options dialog box that provides the ability to choose which toolbars are displayed and the commands on each toolbar.
Provide a Reset command to return to the original toolbar configuration in the Customize options dialog box. Provide the ability to customize the toolbars using drag-and-drop in the following ways:. While toolbar commands are used for immediate actions, sometimes more information is needed to perform the action. Use an ellipsis to indicate that a command requires more information before it can take effect.
Put the ellipsis at the end of the tooltip and label, if there is one. If a command cannot take effect immediately, however, no ellipsis is required. So, for example, sharing settings doesn't have an ellipsis even though it needs additional information, because the command can't possibly take effect immediately. Because toolbars are constantly displayed, and space is at a premium, ellipses should be used infrequently.
For menus displayed by a toolbar, apply the menu ellipses guidelines. Use a tooltip to label the command. For the tooltip text, use what the label would be if the button were labeled, but include the shortcut key if there is one. Use an infotip to describe the command. Because the buttons are labeled, using a tooltip instead of an infotip would be redundant. If an editable drop-down list doesn't have a value, use a prompt.
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Note Guidelines related to menus , command buttons , and icons are presented in separate articles. Note For menus displayed by a toolbar, apply the menu ellipses guidelines.
Is this page helpful? Yes No. Any additional feedback? Skip Submit. Primary toolbars a toolbar designed to work without a menu bar, either hidden or removed. A primary toolbar from Windows Explorer. A supplemental toolbar from Windows Movie Maker. A toolbar menu in Windows Photo Gallery. A customizable toolbar from Microsoft Visual Studio. Palette windows a modeless dialog box that presents an array of commands. Palette windows from Windows Paint. An unlabeled icons toolbar from WordPad.
A labeled icons toolbar from Windows Explorer. Partial toolbars a partial row of small icons used to save space when a full toolbar isn't necessary. Partial toolbars can be combined with navigation buttons, a search box, or tabs. Large partial toolbars a partial row of large icons used to save space when a full toolbar isn't necessary.
A large partial toolbar from Windows Defender. Command icon buttons clicking a command button initiates an immediate action. Examples of icon command buttons from Windows Fax and Scan. Examples of mode buttons from Windows Paint. Property icon buttons a property button's state reflects the state of the currently selected objects, if any.
Examples of property buttons from Microsoft Word. There can be many things in between. This one you already know about. Clicking on it brings up the Start menu ; your gateway to all the programs and everything else in Windows. The search field next to the Windows button does what it says. It searches. When you click on it, the search pane appears. It defaults to All , meaning that it will search all of your computer and the web.
Click on one of the categories to narrow down your search to Apps , Documents , Email , Web , and more. You can ask Cortana questions, it will try to get the answer from the web for you, and it will verbally try to answer your question too.
Cortana will tell you your local time and weather. Did you know Cortana can take notes for you too and remind you of important things?
Right next to the Cortana circle on the taskbar is the Task View icon. But the best feature is the New Desktop feature.
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